Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg